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transaction be considered to have closed there as far as the 

 subordinate officer was concerned ? And if the sowar who 

 had received the 200-rupee horse subsequently took his 

 discharge, and the commanding officer resolved on purchas- 

 ing the horbe for the regiment, no injury would be done to 

 the regimental fund ; the lesser and the higher priced horse 

 are both supposed to be worth their money, and each to 

 have their respective value in the market, and the com- 

 manding officer may of course purchase any horse within 

 the price fixed by Government that he thinks will be an 

 acquisition to the regiment. I hope I have explained my 

 meaning, and that the Chief Commissioner will agree in 

 my view of the case. 



35. Secondly, Nujjuf Alice's chief allegation against 

 Lieutenant Hodson — namely, that he had in August 1853 

 taken a large sum out of the chest, about 3000 rupees, and 

 in the subsequent months of the year " hundreds of rupees," 

 when, through a retrenchment in the pay-office, he had no 

 funds to draw upon — must fall to the ground before the 

 fact that, owing to the transfer of the regiment from the 

 civil to the military department, so great delay took place 

 in the audit of the pay abstracts of the regiment that 

 a single statement, including eight months' pay of the 

 regiment — namely, from April to November 1853 — was 

 only received from the pay-office in February 1854, and 

 those of December 1853 and January 1854 were received 

 a few days later in the same month, making the audit 

 of ten months' pay received at the regiment all in one 

 month, 



36. The pay-bills for November and December 1852 and 

 January 1853 were received subsequently even to the 

 above — namely, in April 1854 — from the civil auditor; so 

 that the audit of thirteen months was received in the 

 course of three months, though the whole of these months' 

 pay was received in advances from the civil treasury at 

 Peshawar ; and Lieutenant Hodson, like others, received 

 the full amount of his pay, and Nujjuf Alice's own account 

 shows that he never exceeded it. The retrenchment 



